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Chicago examiner vol vi no 196 a.m thursday august 6 1908 12 pages price one cent gsss^^ss will not rebuild rurned elevators until the river is widened armour company declares inadequate waterway is killing grain business trade driven elsewhere present conditipns tend also to keep the price of coal higher we will not rebuild oar destroyed iterators unless the river is improved â€” beosgd marcy of the armour grain company we are driving the grain trade from Chicago â€” william m hopkins of the board of trade this i think will bring the matter to a focus â€” geoegz bibkhorr jit of the real estate board go on with the work â€” the lumber men'r association the question how long Chicago ls going to be content to see trade which belongs to her go elsewhere was brought vividly before the harbor commission yesterday afternoon when george marcy of the ar mour grain company told that body that his firm would never rebuild the elevators burned in the recent are until the Chicago klver was widened it is pity enough that we have center pier bridges when those center piers are obstructions iu the river he said and when the city should long ago hare re placed them by jack knife or lift bridges but 1 want to say that we will not replace our destroyed elevators unless the river is improved may bring fight to head it is believed by those who have long been fighting for an adequate waterway â€¢ from the lake into Chicago that this con ' crete example of the city's loss may have the effect of galvanizing the long-discussed ; and as long-delayed project into life they ask whether the ruins of burned elevators are to be added to the funeral procession of abandoned elevators already lining the river front then they point to the fact that Chicago of to-day is insignificant in the amount of grain in storage compared with the Chicago of years gone by the lumbermen's association ls one of the hard fighters for the improvement members of the association expressed themselves last night as more than pleased at the armour ultimatum this is the body which is demanding a 200-foot chan nel the removal of center piers and a straightening of the stream because the Chicago klver was a creek in 1860 is no reason why large lake freight ers should not come down the river in 1908 send out circular letter this was a paragraph of a circular letter sent broadcast addressed to the business interests of Chicago and signed by h w chandler c f wiehe f t boles , robert h gillespie v f mashek h b , leavltt william c schreiber e h wilce , and j w embree we have had two or three meetings al ready this month said george blrkhoff jr of the heal estate board when told last night of mr marcy's declaration the matter will come up again in september 1 think this will bring matters to a focus of course it is a big proposition for to widen the river to 200 feet means the de struction of an immense amount of prop erty and then there is the question of money to pay for it 1 know that trade is going to the calu met and elsewhere that ought to come to us and it ls going at pur expense of course something will simply have to be done perhaps at a happy medium width of say 140 feet mr marcy told the commission that 140 feet was wide enough for the armour in terests william m hopkins in charge of trans portation for the board of trade followed mr marcy ami discussing grain rates be tween Chicago and buffalo said milwaukee better port f if the river were wide enough to bring coal in here in large ship cargoes and take back cargoes of grain the price of coal might be reduced through a reduction of freight rates and similar advantages oh 1 tained from graiu going eastward as it i is we are driving the grain trade from j Chicago as shippers would rather store in milwaukee or other points than here president r r mccormick of the sani i tary district who has been vigorously at 1 tacked for his attitude in regard to the widening of the river replied a few days ago that the work of widening the river was proceeding slowly because it could proceed no other way he pointed to piers which he said had been removed and widening already done and said that cer tain portions could not be widened until litigation had been settled a report from the sanitary district com mittee is to be made to the real estate board at its first september meeting in the meantime the ruins of the armour elevators add so many more witnesses to the rjrocrastlnation of a city v see p^j b for announcement of mti t lumber baron robbed of clothes on sleeper runs to the depot in a sheet w e mcmillan is unable to borrow fitting attire because fellow pas sengers are lightweights pittsburg pa aug s rising from a good night's rest in the pullman car to find that a thief had stolen all his cloth ing save the athletic shirt he had ou and one gaudily flowered vest william e mc millan president of the mcmillan lumber company of Chicago pittsburg and balti : more this morning was greatly distressed to make matters worse for mr mcmillan who weighs 200 pounds there was not a man on the train who weighed more than 140 pounds and his hopes of borrowing enough clothing to save him from beuruj the observed of all observers were speed ily dispelled his pocketbook had disap peared with his raiment reaching pittsburg he forced his legs into the trousers of the 135-ponnd b & o conductor nnd with a sheet lent him by the porter he ran to the baggage room of the depot and telephoned for his family to eend him enough clothes to get to the office the language of mr mcmillan did not reach a for publication stage until late in the day then he said when we got to west xewton thirty five milee from pittsburg the porter waked me i found 1 did not have a collar left to put on besides my clothes the thief took 155 and my 200 worth ot jewelry john temple graves to undergo operation independence party candidate as sures friends that it is slight new york aug s colonel john temple graves is at the private hospital of dr w gill wiley where early to-mor row morning he will undergo a slight sur gical operation he expects to be out in ten days for some weeks sir graves has suffered great physical pain but he never yielded going to the Chicago republican convention to the bryan convention at denver nnd later to the independence party convention which nominated him for vice president after the excitement of these contests his health necessitated a consultation with a physician an operation was decided on and for the past five days he has been conserving his physical strength in preparation for the knife as soon as he is on his feet again he will enter actively into the campaign making speeches iu nearly every state in the union n'oue of my friends need lie uneasy about my health be said to-night the operation to be performed is of so slight a character as to cause no anxiety to myself my fam ily or my friends j b c lucas ill child's death kept from him st louis millionaire and two others of family in critical condition st louis mo aug 3 j b c lucas of 4495 west pine boulevard a millionaire member of one of the oldest families in st louis is so ill at his summer home in normandy that he has not yet been in formed of the death on monday of his five-year-old daughter emily nor of the critical illness of his other daughter mrs frank sawyer of anderson ind and his nephew henry lucas jr mrs sawyer is also being kept in ignorance of the death of her sister hem lucas jr was oper ated on for appenuicitis and to-night his condition is serious mrs sawyer ls dangerously ill of typhoid fever emily lucas died at the mullanphy hospital monday following an operation for ap pendicitis according to his physicians he could not stand the shock of his little daughter's death nor the news of the ill ness of his other daughter and nephew miss elkins to become catholic london hears cardinal gibbons given as authority for the report london aug 5 a dispatch to the globe from rome gives cardinal gibbons as authority for the statement that miss katherine elklns is to be received into the catholic church before her marriage to the duke of the abruzzi pope pius is said to have expressed great pleasure on learning that miss elklns was about to become a catholic and an italian princess washington aug s lt has been rumored in washington that miss elklns who is negative in religious belief was receiving instructions from both cardinal gibbons and monsignor falconio cardi nal gibbons ls an intimate friend of the elklns famiy reporters barred from tax review cases by board employes keep room's length between reduction proceed ings and newspapermen spirit of law broken van buren opera house as sessment reduced prescott estates given cut nullification of an important provision of the tax laws of Illinois requiring the tax reviewers to conduct iu public the hearings given to taxpayers seeking reductions has been brought about during the last few weeks by the trio of politicians constitut ing the board of review kay after day the newspaper reporters are now denied the opportunity to bear what is said at the hearings they are no longer allowed to hear what the property owners say to the reviewers or what the re viewers say to the property owners in other words the so-called public hearings have been rendered farcical to the last de gree in so far as any chance for real public ity is concerned â€¢ v whispers block publicity aip attempts of the newspaper men to hoar what goes on at the public hear ings now conducted by reviewers west l'pham and mcaehaiu have been rebuffed nothing is permitted to be heard as to the reasons why tax reductions are asked the hearings which the law says should be judicial as well as public have been con verted into a series of whisperings it had been the custom since the founfla tion of the board of review to have the reviewers and the representatives of the newspapers sit at the same table under this plan which had been in vogue for eight years or so there was always an op portunity for publication of the details of all proceedings at the hearings until two weeks ago this practice contin ued then one day the newspaper reporters were told they must occupy seats at a dif ferent table from that at which the hear ings were given it was round that over night a small table barely of a size to ac commodate the three reviewers at one side with seats at the other side for tete-a-tetes with the property owners had been placed iu the room reporters practically barred for a few days after the reviewers had provided themselves with a separate table there was only a short distance between the press and board day after i.ay the hiatus between the two tables has jeen mysteriously increased until at last it has become a yawning chasm in a room about forty feet long the pub lic hearings were given yesterday with the reviewers at one end and the reporters at the other the plan to enshroud the board's pro ceedings with a veil of secrecy is said lo be traceable to the fact that too much news in regard to the often quite flimsy reasons upon which the pleas for tax reductions are based were creeping iuto the public prints b van buren a druggist at 1249 and fcsl : west madison street who owns the van buren opera house complained that his property was taxed too high the assess ment on the land 14,400 was allowed to stand but the opera house was reduced ! from 18,500 to 14,500 the phillip m ! prescott estate 173 and 177 lake street had an assessment of 110,020 cut to 100,020 the property at 2241 michigan avenue belonging to the same estate was reduced from 25,750 to 21,750 fidelia wise 1103 to hid milwaukee avenue was allowed a reduction on improvements of from 33,500 to 21,000 girl trjes to drag man from bride at altar paulist church in new york scene of sensation new yokk aug 5 a sensational at tempt to prevent a wedding in the paulist church columbus avenue near fifty-ninth street was made this evening by a neau tiful girl handsomely gowned who bv shrieking and clinging to the bridegroom attracted more than a thousand persons to the soene hehiud the bare story of the excitement created ls a profound mystery as to the identity of the principals in volved and according to the police a story of how a strange woman yesterday visited the west side court and said she would kill a man and herself iu front of the church to-night if the man attempted to marry any one hut herself rev father laverty married the man and the woman in white who escaped the clutches of the girl save mayor busse's brother from drowning tangled in submerged rigging of yacht he is dragged out unconscious bank presidfnt rescuer j j mitchell of Illinois trust appears just in time to bring him out alive lake geneva wis aug s ln the regatta at this fashionable resort to-day sailed iu wind and water so stiff that seven yachts were capsized a record of disaster never before attained at lake geneva george busse brother of chicago's mayor was tangled up in the submerged rigging of his boat yankee girl and was dragged out unconscious the rescue was made by j j mitchell president of the Illinois trust & savings bank j c ilnieiy and ferd iv peck who were aboard mr mitchell's steam yacht louise , the yankee girl was sailing an excellent race with skipper busse arrayed in white ducks at hie wheel with leaps and bounds every sail puiliug and every rope singing she was closing up a big gap be tween her and her nearest competitor when something happened nobody seems to know exactly wlia caused it but she suddenly pitched for ward and rolled over like a wounded bird mr busse was caught iu the halyards which held him off some distance from the overturned hull and prevented his crew from reaching him when the troughs of the waves came his way his face was barely visible but most of the time he was entirely under water like his brother george busse is a very bulky man and he was unable to be of any material assistance to himself pulled out just in time in a few minutes more he would have been drowned but luckily the louise was close by at the time of the accident and her hanker-captain brought ber along side the wreck in a jiffy on the deck of the louise there was a plauk swing which her crew uses in painting and cleaning her bull mr mit chell mr peck and mr ilately heaved thts swing overboard and a member of the louise's crew sliding dowu the rope put the plank under the unconscious form of mr busse the banker and his friends pulled at the rope until their soft white palms were blistered cruelly but bnsse's 280 pounds now a dead weight was too much for them they had to get assistance from the crew before they succeeded in drag ging skipper busse to the deck a little vigorous work revived him you had a close shave said mr mitchell i always said that water was a bad thing to take inwardly retorted busse invader turns turtle with nine boats iu the class b race and all having au almost even start they furnished great anxiety and spectacular instances of seamanship the invader's crew had considerable trouble in the start to manipulate the spiuaker twenty-three bad to give way to a boat that had the right of way on windward and was de layed for a long time bue when she got into the open sea she shot ahead and was soon sjongslde the invador on a tuck twenty-three successfully pushed herself several feet ahead from the buoy iu the uarrows to the foutana buoy it was a constant fight for suprem acy with twenty-three ahead by 100 feet as they rounded the last buoy for the home goal invader s spiuaker got away and jack kohl lost control of the boat and instantly nhe turned turtle twcuty thrce sailed home to victory with fred wackcr's ittillie second in the class c race with the mosquito fleet uose finished first in the class a race ii the afternoon all boats got a fine start the algtma was the only boat that reefed all started oat with a flash and hindi andy crossed the line first pals was second ocouomowoc third and black point fourth all other boats following closely after all were well under way the favorite handy andy 11 broke her mast ami was forced to retire buttinski 11 was struck by a gust of wind and was capsized soon after bucca neer was # cap.sjzed but by quick action the crew rlgh'ted the boat before it filled with waler and sailed over the course badly dis abled ocouomowoc was one of the strong est contestants for the regatta trophy but her spiuaker ballooned and capÃŸized her in a most spectacular manner she turtled ; almost immediately brutnouia received ; pistakee lake scene of hot naval battle two of the combatants in naval battle at pistakee picture of island which was defended and diagram showing how battle was fought and won crew of three kickers suc cessfully repels invaders of island stronghold none escapes unhurt one man stunned by blow from oar has narrow es cape from drowning a naval baitle was fought on pistakee lake 111 two days ago both vessels | that took part in the engagement were 1 1 badly damaged and will have to go into dry dock for repairs not a member of â€¢ either crew escaped wounds and the sec ond mate on the three kickers one of tile contestants was knocked overboarcmiy a well-directed blow from an oar in the hands of one of the enemy he was partly sttin'ned and would have j drowned had he not kicked the bottom of j the lake with his feet which caused him i to rise to the surface again the attack ou the three kickers wus the result of an ultimatum delivered by tie captain of a low rakish craft which sailed into the waters of the bay below pis . i takee island unheralded the name of the ship had either been painted out or the ex citement attendant upon the tierce engage ment which took place immediately after wards caused the captain of the three kickers to overlook it interstate complications may be the result of the battle as the commanding officer of the Illinois vessel has intimated that he may bring the matter to the attention of the ruler uf the foreign state from which the rival vessel hails all receive injuries following are the injured in the pistakee battle millek oscar c attorney 373 wintbrop htreet captain of the three kickera badly cut on face besides minor injuries will recover ; mlllt:it edward :!":: wlntbiop street con nected with an electrical supply house mate of the three kickers knocked into pistakee lake and nearly drowned was partly stunned i boeder leo v attorney 1019 we t twelfth street crew of the three kickers badly cut bl'hlt frank manufacturer mchenry mich captain of the invader scab ljid open from a blow by a marlin spike tuttle mchenry mich crew of the in vader ; extent of injuries net known according to captain oscar miller when the strange vessel hove into sight from the lee side of the island he was sitting with his brother the mate and boeder the crew of the three kickers on the dock watching a motor boat race from the first we did not like the looks of the crew on the stranger said the cap i tain last night when the vessel shoved i its nose against the dock and the crew started to make a landing i requested ! captain buhr to remain aboard his boat as pistakee island was the property of myself ami brother he immediately demanded to 1 see the papers proving our ownership i told him that we had no papers and a buhr demands oftpeps f om i t hiulp f-ec milles jumps in afreie brother boc mitttf t-roedfi arrive irt lajnfh g brother r-.-!Â«s to snore c-&ammin6 madeuv/trs h Â£ c miller corttrxueri amd boards d'oc miller itltockfo into lake bf oaft b"jhr laffnci e-btajf knocked doÂ»n f>v oak i bathes m/hm onopifin until separates gates matches for 40,000 and loses major birmingham tells how millionaire unluckily dared texas poker players nfw york aug s major charles o birmingham of galveston tex who has been at the hotel astor for the last week on his first visit to new york admitted to-day that he was a great friend and ad mirer of john w gates and gave some of his in the smoking compartment of a train on his way to aslmrv park he entertained his fellow passengers with a story about mr gates i have been much amused to learn that some of his texas friends want to run him for congress he said if he runs in that district he will be elected uauiu down the other day he paid a short business visit to a texas town and en deared himself to the hearts or the local populace some of the gamesters of the town heard in advance that mr , gates was coming and prepared to furnish a little entertainment and exciteinen they raised a poker pot of slo.ooo and when he put up at the principal hotel of the town a delegation waited ou him and explained the preparations he told the boys that he must hurry on to el paso the leader of the party explained how ever that this pot was no mere trifle and that 40,000 had been assembled especially for the game â€¢' all right boys said mr gates i really haven't the time to play poker for that roll of money but i'll tell you what i'll do i'll match you for it tuere was a hasty consultation and the delegation agreed to the proposal mr gates drew out a half dollar and slapped it dowu on the table saying i'm matching you one of the members of the delegation fished out a quarter and covered it on the table with his palm gates lifted his hand he had heads up the texan lifted his hand and displayed tails up gates just grinned took out a check ! book and wrote his check for 40,000 to the leader of the party then he bought all around recent reports indicate that gates has lost interest in poker ami prefers to lose or win by the swift process of matching coins when he was in alabama a few weeks ngo a similar story of matching coins for a large sum was told Chicago woman crazed by heat sll in omaha omaha neb aug s partially de mented on account of the excessive heat mrs mary shea a passenger on a union pacific train through omaha to-day left the train and was wandering around the streets of the city in a dazed condition when found by the police she was taken to a hospital mrs shea is about seventy years old she had a round-trip ticket from Chicago to san francisco and nearly 100 in her purse she knows she lives iu Chicago but caunot give the address she will be cared for until her recovery or until friends from Chicago call for her sav bk boy's hacked body pound mile from legs young slave killed by padronb is police theory of river mystery head and arms missing victim evidently young greek as shown by markings on clothes on trail of one boy 14-year-old boy mysteriously disappeared with man who posed as father july 29 scores of police detectives un der assistant chief sehuettler and inspector dorman are try ing to solve the mystery of the murder of a young boy believed to be a greek whose body was hacked to pieces and the mutilated portions thrown into mud lake and the drainage district canal so far the legs and torso have been recovered but the head and arms are missing one foot the left was recov ered along with the body may be padrone's victim at present one police theory is that the killing may ha<ve been done by some society of padrone 1 ?. in Chicago st louis and elsewhec t!ie govern ment has been investigating greek child slavery young bovs are irrought to this country in bondf^e colonized and leased out to be bootblacks to be held until they satisfy their masters who pay for the steamer ticket and other expenses of transportation from the old country this is merely a police conclusion so far early this morning the police learned that george kafkas a four teen-year-old greek i boy has been missins since july 29 the informa tion was supplied by a greek barber at 61 blue island avenue he said that the boy and his father occupie.l rooms above the barber shop the father left his trunk in care of the barber and said he was going to take the boy away because he was an idler he told the barber he would sentl for his trunk in about a month i the police will to-day search the 1 trunk for evidence connecting young , kafkas with the slain boy at about the time the police struck the kafkas clew detective william geoigipoolos arrested a suspect at blue island avenue and polk street and sent him to the maxwell street i i'lation the detective says the stis ' pect bears a bad reputation and ha will be closely questioned concerning i his knowledge of the crime victim apparently a boy the portions of the body now at the morgue are apparently parts of the corpse of a boy not more than fourteen years of age last night the greek quarter of the city was searched in a vain effort to learn of some miss ing young greek the search will be continued in thla and other cities detectives who speak greek and are familiar with the resi dents of the greek colony are to be pressed into service late last night the police believed that they had established the identity of the slain boy they learned thav tuffa hishim the fifteen-year-old son of samuel hishim a servian living at 7 johnson street had been missing from home since last sunday but a n neimy of 095 south canal street biother-in-law of the boy discred^b the theory that he was the murder victim by stating that two differeni men had told him that they had seen tuffa as late as yesterday the police took tuffa's father to the morgue to view the portions of the murdered j boy's body " at 2 o'clock this morning hishim had failed to identify the clothing found in the valise and wrapped about the remains of the murder victim as the clothing worn by his missing son on the theory that the murdered boy might have been an italian instead |^^ greek the police have renewed continued on 4th page 3d column i j continued on 4th page 3d^Â£olumm it weather forecast fl 0(m Chicago and vicinity gen jÂ»u f ' . b orally fair with somewhat lower g a tj9 temperature on thursday friday j jk probably fair with moderate tern tv v.u perature fresh to brisk northerly jflr can you gÂ£t results you can if you place your ad in the examiner if it is a 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Chicago examiner vol vi no 196 a.m thursday august 6 1908 12 pages price one cent gsss^^ss will not rebuild rurned elevators until the river is widened armour company declares inadequate waterway is killing grain business trade driven elsewhere present conditipns tend also to keep the price of coal higher we will not rebuild oar destroyed iterators unless the river is improved â€” beosgd marcy of the armour grain company we are driving the grain trade from Chicago â€” william m hopkins of the board of trade this i think will bring the matter to a focus â€” geoegz bibkhorr jit of the real estate board go on with the work â€” the lumber men'r association the question how long Chicago ls going to be content to see trade which belongs to her go elsewhere was brought vividly before the harbor commission yesterday afternoon when george marcy of the ar mour grain company told that body that his firm would never rebuild the elevators burned in the recent are until the Chicago klver was widened it is pity enough that we have center pier bridges when those center piers are obstructions iu the river he said and when the city should long ago hare re placed them by jack knife or lift bridges but 1 want to say that we will not replace our destroyed elevators unless the river is improved may bring fight to head it is believed by those who have long been fighting for an adequate waterway â€¢ from the lake into Chicago that this con ' crete example of the city's loss may have the effect of galvanizing the long-discussed ; and as long-delayed project into life they ask whether the ruins of burned elevators are to be added to the funeral procession of abandoned elevators already lining the river front then they point to the fact that Chicago of to-day is insignificant in the amount of grain in storage compared with the Chicago of years gone by the lumbermen's association ls one of the hard fighters for the improvement members of the association expressed themselves last night as more than pleased at the armour ultimatum this is the body which is demanding a 200-foot chan nel the removal of center piers and a straightening of the stream because the Chicago klver was a creek in 1860 is no reason why large lake freight ers should not come down the river in 1908 send out circular letter this was a paragraph of a circular letter sent broadcast addressed to the business interests of Chicago and signed by h w chandler c f wiehe f t boles , robert h gillespie v f mashek h b , leavltt william c schreiber e h wilce , and j w embree we have had two or three meetings al ready this month said george blrkhoff jr of the heal estate board when told last night of mr marcy's declaration the matter will come up again in september 1 think this will bring matters to a focus of course it is a big proposition for to widen the river to 200 feet means the de struction of an immense amount of prop erty and then there is the question of money to pay for it 1 know that trade is going to the calu met and elsewhere that ought to come to us and it ls going at pur expense of course something will simply have to be done perhaps at a happy medium width of say 140 feet mr marcy told the commission that 140 feet was wide enough for the armour in terests william m hopkins in charge of trans portation for the board of trade followed mr marcy ami discussing grain rates be tween Chicago and buffalo said milwaukee better port f if the river were wide enough to bring coal in here in large ship cargoes and take back cargoes of grain the price of coal might be reduced through a reduction of freight rates and similar advantages oh 1 tained from graiu going eastward as it i is we are driving the grain trade from j Chicago as shippers would rather store in milwaukee or other points than here president r r mccormick of the sani i tary district who has been vigorously at 1 tacked for his attitude in regard to the widening of the river replied a few days ago that the work of widening the river was proceeding slowly because it could proceed no other way he pointed to piers which he said had been removed and widening already done and said that cer tain portions could not be widened until litigation had been settled a report from the sanitary district com mittee is to be made to the real estate board at its first september meeting in the meantime the ruins of the armour elevators add so many more witnesses to the rjrocrastlnation of a city v see p^j b for announcement of mti t lumber baron robbed of clothes on sleeper runs to the depot in a sheet w e mcmillan is unable to borrow fitting attire because fellow pas sengers are lightweights pittsburg pa aug s rising from a good night's rest in the pullman car to find that a thief had stolen all his cloth ing save the athletic shirt he had ou and one gaudily flowered vest william e mc millan president of the mcmillan lumber company of Chicago pittsburg and balti : more this morning was greatly distressed to make matters worse for mr mcmillan who weighs 200 pounds there was not a man on the train who weighed more than 140 pounds and his hopes of borrowing enough clothing to save him from beuruj the observed of all observers were speed ily dispelled his pocketbook had disap peared with his raiment reaching pittsburg he forced his legs into the trousers of the 135-ponnd b & o conductor nnd with a sheet lent him by the porter he ran to the baggage room of the depot and telephoned for his family to eend him enough clothes to get to the office the language of mr mcmillan did not reach a for publication stage until late in the day then he said when we got to west xewton thirty five milee from pittsburg the porter waked me i found 1 did not have a collar left to put on besides my clothes the thief took 155 and my 200 worth ot jewelry john temple graves to undergo operation independence party candidate as sures friends that it is slight new york aug s colonel john temple graves is at the private hospital of dr w gill wiley where early to-mor row morning he will undergo a slight sur gical operation he expects to be out in ten days for some weeks sir graves has suffered great physical pain but he never yielded going to the Chicago republican convention to the bryan convention at denver nnd later to the independence party convention which nominated him for vice president after the excitement of these contests his health necessitated a consultation with a physician an operation was decided on and for the past five days he has been conserving his physical strength in preparation for the knife as soon as he is on his feet again he will enter actively into the campaign making speeches iu nearly every state in the union n'oue of my friends need lie uneasy about my health be said to-night the operation to be performed is of so slight a character as to cause no anxiety to myself my fam ily or my friends j b c lucas ill child's death kept from him st louis millionaire and two others of family in critical condition st louis mo aug 3 j b c lucas of 4495 west pine boulevard a millionaire member of one of the oldest families in st louis is so ill at his summer home in normandy that he has not yet been in formed of the death on monday of his five-year-old daughter emily nor of the critical illness of his other daughter mrs frank sawyer of anderson ind and his nephew henry lucas jr mrs sawyer is also being kept in ignorance of the death of her sister hem lucas jr was oper ated on for appenuicitis and to-night his condition is serious mrs sawyer ls dangerously ill of typhoid fever emily lucas died at the mullanphy hospital monday following an operation for ap pendicitis according to his physicians he could not stand the shock of his little daughter's death nor the news of the ill ness of his other daughter and nephew miss elkins to become catholic london hears cardinal gibbons given as authority for the report london aug 5 a dispatch to the globe from rome gives cardinal gibbons as authority for the statement that miss katherine elklns is to be received into the catholic church before her marriage to the duke of the abruzzi pope pius is said to have expressed great pleasure on learning that miss elklns was about to become a catholic and an italian princess washington aug s lt has been rumored in washington that miss elklns who is negative in religious belief was receiving instructions from both cardinal gibbons and monsignor falconio cardi nal gibbons ls an intimate friend of the elklns famiy reporters barred from tax review cases by board employes keep room's length between reduction proceed ings and newspapermen spirit of law broken van buren opera house as sessment reduced prescott estates given cut nullification of an important provision of the tax laws of Illinois requiring the tax reviewers to conduct iu public the hearings given to taxpayers seeking reductions has been brought about during the last few weeks by the trio of politicians constitut ing the board of review kay after day the newspaper reporters are now denied the opportunity to bear what is said at the hearings they are no longer allowed to hear what the property owners say to the reviewers or what the re viewers say to the property owners in other words the so-called public hearings have been rendered farcical to the last de gree in so far as any chance for real public ity is concerned â€¢ v whispers block publicity aip attempts of the newspaper men to hoar what goes on at the public hear ings now conducted by reviewers west l'pham and mcaehaiu have been rebuffed nothing is permitted to be heard as to the reasons why tax reductions are asked the hearings which the law says should be judicial as well as public have been con verted into a series of whisperings it had been the custom since the founfla tion of the board of review to have the reviewers and the representatives of the newspapers sit at the same table under this plan which had been in vogue for eight years or so there was always an op portunity for publication of the details of all proceedings at the hearings until two weeks ago this practice contin ued then one day the newspaper reporters were told they must occupy seats at a dif ferent table from that at which the hear ings were given it was round that over night a small table barely of a size to ac commodate the three reviewers at one side with seats at the other side for tete-a-tetes with the property owners had been placed iu the room reporters practically barred for a few days after the reviewers had provided themselves with a separate table there was only a short distance between the press and board day after i.ay the hiatus between the two tables has jeen mysteriously increased until at last it has become a yawning chasm in a room about forty feet long the pub lic hearings were given yesterday with the reviewers at one end and the reporters at the other the plan to enshroud the board's pro ceedings with a veil of secrecy is said lo be traceable to the fact that too much news in regard to the often quite flimsy reasons upon which the pleas for tax reductions are based were creeping iuto the public prints b van buren a druggist at 1249 and fcsl : west madison street who owns the van buren opera house complained that his property was taxed too high the assess ment on the land 14,400 was allowed to stand but the opera house was reduced ! from 18,500 to 14,500 the phillip m ! prescott estate 173 and 177 lake street had an assessment of 110,020 cut to 100,020 the property at 2241 michigan avenue belonging to the same estate was reduced from 25,750 to 21,750 fidelia wise 1103 to hid milwaukee avenue was allowed a reduction on improvements of from 33,500 to 21,000 girl trjes to drag man from bride at altar paulist church in new york scene of sensation new yokk aug 5 a sensational at tempt to prevent a wedding in the paulist church columbus avenue near fifty-ninth street was made this evening by a neau tiful girl handsomely gowned who bv shrieking and clinging to the bridegroom attracted more than a thousand persons to the soene hehiud the bare story of the excitement created ls a profound mystery as to the identity of the principals in volved and according to the police a story of how a strange woman yesterday visited the west side court and said she would kill a man and herself iu front of the church to-night if the man attempted to marry any one hut herself rev father laverty married the man and the woman in white who escaped the clutches of the girl save mayor busse's brother from drowning tangled in submerged rigging of yacht he is dragged out unconscious bank presidfnt rescuer j j mitchell of Illinois trust appears just in time to bring him out alive lake geneva wis aug s ln the regatta at this fashionable resort to-day sailed iu wind and water so stiff that seven yachts were capsized a record of disaster never before attained at lake geneva george busse brother of chicago's mayor was tangled up in the submerged rigging of his boat yankee girl and was dragged out unconscious the rescue was made by j j mitchell president of the Illinois trust & savings bank j c ilnieiy and ferd iv peck who were aboard mr mitchell's steam yacht louise , the yankee girl was sailing an excellent race with skipper busse arrayed in white ducks at hie wheel with leaps and bounds every sail puiliug and every rope singing she was closing up a big gap be tween her and her nearest competitor when something happened nobody seems to know exactly wlia caused it but she suddenly pitched for ward and rolled over like a wounded bird mr busse was caught iu the halyards which held him off some distance from the overturned hull and prevented his crew from reaching him when the troughs of the waves came his way his face was barely visible but most of the time he was entirely under water like his brother george busse is a very bulky man and he was unable to be of any material assistance to himself pulled out just in time in a few minutes more he would have been drowned but luckily the louise was close by at the time of the accident and her hanker-captain brought ber along side the wreck in a jiffy on the deck of the louise there was a plauk swing which her crew uses in painting and cleaning her bull mr mit chell mr peck and mr ilately heaved thts swing overboard and a member of the louise's crew sliding dowu the rope put the plank under the unconscious form of mr busse the banker and his friends pulled at the rope until their soft white palms were blistered cruelly but bnsse's 280 pounds now a dead weight was too much for them they had to get assistance from the crew before they succeeded in drag ging skipper busse to the deck a little vigorous work revived him you had a close shave said mr mitchell i always said that water was a bad thing to take inwardly retorted busse invader turns turtle with nine boats iu the class b race and all having au almost even start they furnished great anxiety and spectacular instances of seamanship the invader's crew had considerable trouble in the start to manipulate the spiuaker twenty-three bad to give way to a boat that had the right of way on windward and was de layed for a long time bue when she got into the open sea she shot ahead and was soon sjongslde the invador on a tuck twenty-three successfully pushed herself several feet ahead from the buoy iu the uarrows to the foutana buoy it was a constant fight for suprem acy with twenty-three ahead by 100 feet as they rounded the last buoy for the home goal invader s spiuaker got away and jack kohl lost control of the boat and instantly nhe turned turtle twcuty thrce sailed home to victory with fred wackcr's ittillie second in the class c race with the mosquito fleet uose finished first in the class a race ii the afternoon all boats got a fine start the algtma was the only boat that reefed all started oat with a flash and hindi andy crossed the line first pals was second ocouomowoc third and black point fourth all other boats following closely after all were well under way the favorite handy andy 11 broke her mast ami was forced to retire buttinski 11 was struck by a gust of wind and was capsized soon after bucca neer was # cap.sjzed but by quick action the crew rlgh'ted the boat before it filled with waler and sailed over the course badly dis abled ocouomowoc was one of the strong est contestants for the regatta trophy but her spiuaker ballooned and capÃŸized her in a most spectacular manner she turtled ; almost immediately brutnouia received ; pistakee lake scene of hot naval battle two of the combatants in naval battle at pistakee picture of island which was defended and diagram showing how battle was fought and won crew of three kickers suc cessfully repels invaders of island stronghold none escapes unhurt one man stunned by blow from oar has narrow es cape from drowning a naval baitle was fought on pistakee lake 111 two days ago both vessels | that took part in the engagement were 1 1 badly damaged and will have to go into dry dock for repairs not a member of â€¢ either crew escaped wounds and the sec ond mate on the three kickers one of tile contestants was knocked overboarcmiy a well-directed blow from an oar in the hands of one of the enemy he was partly sttin'ned and would have j drowned had he not kicked the bottom of j the lake with his feet which caused him i to rise to the surface again the attack ou the three kickers wus the result of an ultimatum delivered by tie captain of a low rakish craft which sailed into the waters of the bay below pis . i takee island unheralded the name of the ship had either been painted out or the ex citement attendant upon the tierce engage ment which took place immediately after wards caused the captain of the three kickers to overlook it interstate complications may be the result of the battle as the commanding officer of the Illinois vessel has intimated that he may bring the matter to the attention of the ruler uf the foreign state from which the rival vessel hails all receive injuries following are the injured in the pistakee battle millek oscar c attorney 373 wintbrop htreet captain of the three kickera badly cut on face besides minor injuries will recover ; mlllt:it edward :!":: wlntbiop street con nected with an electrical supply house mate of the three kickers knocked into pistakee lake and nearly drowned was partly stunned i boeder leo v attorney 1019 we t twelfth street crew of the three kickers badly cut bl'hlt frank manufacturer mchenry mich captain of the invader scab ljid open from a blow by a marlin spike tuttle mchenry mich crew of the in vader ; extent of injuries net known according to captain oscar miller when the strange vessel hove into sight from the lee side of the island he was sitting with his brother the mate and boeder the crew of the three kickers on the dock watching a motor boat race from the first we did not like the looks of the crew on the stranger said the cap i tain last night when the vessel shoved i its nose against the dock and the crew started to make a landing i requested ! captain buhr to remain aboard his boat as pistakee island was the property of myself ami brother he immediately demanded to 1 see the papers proving our ownership i told him that we had no papers and a buhr demands oftpeps f om i t hiulp f-ec milles jumps in afreie brother boc mitttf t-roedfi arrive irt lajnfh g brother r-.-!Â«s to snore c-&ammin6 madeuv/trs h Â£ c miller corttrxueri amd boards d'oc miller itltockfo into lake bf oaft b"jhr laffnci e-btajf knocked doÂ»n f>v oak i bathes m/hm onopifin until separates gates matches for 40,000 and loses major birmingham tells how millionaire unluckily dared texas poker players nfw york aug s major charles o birmingham of galveston tex who has been at the hotel astor for the last week on his first visit to new york admitted to-day that he was a great friend and ad mirer of john w gates and gave some of his in the smoking compartment of a train on his way to aslmrv park he entertained his fellow passengers with a story about mr gates i have been much amused to learn that some of his texas friends want to run him for congress he said if he runs in that district he will be elected uauiu down the other day he paid a short business visit to a texas town and en deared himself to the hearts or the local populace some of the gamesters of the town heard in advance that mr , gates was coming and prepared to furnish a little entertainment and exciteinen they raised a poker pot of slo.ooo and when he put up at the principal hotel of the town a delegation waited ou him and explained the preparations he told the boys that he must hurry on to el paso the leader of the party explained how ever that this pot was no mere trifle and that 40,000 had been assembled especially for the game â€¢' all right boys said mr gates i really haven't the time to play poker for that roll of money but i'll tell you what i'll do i'll match you for it tuere was a hasty consultation and the delegation agreed to the proposal mr gates drew out a half dollar and slapped it dowu on the table saying i'm matching you one of the members of the delegation fished out a quarter and covered it on the table with his palm gates lifted his hand he had heads up the texan lifted his hand and displayed tails up gates just grinned took out a check ! book and wrote his check for 40,000 to the leader of the party then he bought all around recent reports indicate that gates has lost interest in poker ami prefers to lose or win by the swift process of matching coins when he was in alabama a few weeks ngo a similar story of matching coins for a large sum was told Chicago woman crazed by heat sll in omaha omaha neb aug s partially de mented on account of the excessive heat mrs mary shea a passenger on a union pacific train through omaha to-day left the train and was wandering around the streets of the city in a dazed condition when found by the police she was taken to a hospital mrs shea is about seventy years old she had a round-trip ticket from Chicago to san francisco and nearly 100 in her purse she knows she lives iu Chicago but caunot give the address she will be cared for until her recovery or until friends from Chicago call for her sav bk boy's hacked body pound mile from legs young slave killed by padronb is police theory of river mystery head and arms missing victim evidently young greek as shown by markings on clothes on trail of one boy 14-year-old boy mysteriously disappeared with man who posed as father july 29 scores of police detectives un der assistant chief sehuettler and inspector dorman are try ing to solve the mystery of the murder of a young boy believed to be a greek whose body was hacked to pieces and the mutilated portions thrown into mud lake and the drainage district canal so far the legs and torso have been recovered but the head and arms are missing one foot the left was recov ered along with the body may be padrone's victim at present one police theory is that the killing may ha